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WebVideoFetcher.com is a free internet videos download application which allows you to convert nearly any audio or video URL from YouTube, MySpace, Google, Facebook and 100 more sites to common formats with absolutely no waiting time, this is what makes us special.
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Algebra 1 Teachers: How to put math/science symbols and equations (almost) anywhere
Don't you love when you find something that makes your job easier? Not only that, it does exactly what you have been looking for to solve a problem in your classroom. I have stumbled upon a couple of those lately and thought I would share them here.
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The eLearning Industry Blog: Free eLearning Books - The ultimate list
If you have read any of the following books I will highly appreciate if you share your opinion with the e-Learning community.
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All K-12 educators are welcome to join this experimental, practitioner-led professional learning network.
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The Deep End of Hyperstupid | Hyperstupid
Facebook… it’s a ghost town, right? No one there, no need to worry even a little bit about, oh, you know, posting a photo of yourself, your buddy, and your favorite ordinance?
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Stop the CAPTCHA Madness! | are you a human | the captcha alternative
The next evolution of online human verification and the best CAPTCHA replacement around.
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Make Your New Mac Look Like It’s Straight Out Of 1984 With This Retro Mod | Cult of Mac
Mac OS (Old School) is an icon and wallpaper set created by Ben Vessey that transforms your current Mac into a “vintage” machine.
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Google: “State-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account” | Naked Security
In an official blog entry, Google says how it will display the warning to users of Chrome, Gmail and its search engine when it believes the users have been the target of state-sponsored attacks.
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites
Today we’d like to give you Google’s recommendations for building smartphone-optimized websites and explain how to do so in a way that gives both your desktop- and smartphone-optimized sites the best chance of performing well in Google’s search results.
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Free Apps to Create Digital Portfolios for Students and Teachers
Have you or your students ever considered creating digital portfolios on the go? Well now with the new mobile technology everything is possbile. There are a variety of apps that can help you create and organize portfolios and sketchbooks and some don't cost you even a penny.
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Foursquare Gets A New Look: Redesign Makes Checking In Stickier And More Social | TechCrunch
Foursquare, the app that lets people virtually “check in” to places that they physically visit, has debuted a new top-to-bottom redesign of its mobile applications.
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Linkedin Blog » Updating Your Password on LinkedIn and Other Account Security Best Practices
While our investigation continues, we thought it would be a good idea to remind our members that one of the best ways to protect your privacy and security online is to craft a strong password, to change it frequently (at least once a quarter or every few months) and to not use the same password on multiple sites.
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The Tabula Project Aims To Turn Tablets Into Teaching Tools | TechCrunch
A crowdfunded project by tech blogger Noah Kravitz is going to try to turn around the sclerotic business of education software. Dubbed the Tabula Project, the crowdfunded system will allow teachers to create their own lesson plans on almost any tablet without fuss or training. In short, it aims to make educational software far easier and, more important, far cheaper than it has been in the past.
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Social media. All the kids are doing it. | TOPYX Social LMS
Social media growth in the learning process, even at the primary education level, points to the increased importance of social learning management systems (LMS) value in the workplace. It comes down to how people what to learn.
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How to Check If Your LinkedIn Password Was Stolen
Worried that your LinkedIn password may be a part of the nearly 6.5 million compromised on Wednesday? Password management firm LastPass has released a secure tool to see if your password was among the stolen.
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How Educators Are Using Learnist | MindShift
Learnist, as many have already pointed out, works much like Pinterest — a way to catalog online resources on a topic and share them with the user’s social network. And like Pinterest, it looks like a digital bulletin board with pictures and messages, and connects with Facebook accounts. In fact, the site’s “learning boards” look quite a bit like Facebook’s timeline feature, and Facebook membership is required to use Learnist at this point.
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Don't Think College Is Worth It? Ask People Who Haven't Gone - NYTimes.com
Last month the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development released data showing that college graduates generally do not regret going to college, despite lots of criticism of the value of higher education. Today the center released a new report focusing on the depressing state of America’s recent high school graduates, who seem to agree about the importance of further education.
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How to start an amazing class blog! | Gradebook
Here at LearnBoost, we work with phenomenal teachers every day to bring them the best free grading, planning, reporting, and sharing apps around.
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School is a lot more fun when the entire building is covered in astroturf. Or when your playground is an abandoned oil rig. Architects and educators are finding new ways to engage kids in learning through the built environment, and the results are out of this world.
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10 New iOS Apps Perfect For Summer Learning | Edudemic
Summer is nearly upon us. That means students and teachers alike will be out of the classroom. But there’s a fact that you should remember: all those students and teachers will still be using their smartphones and tablets on a daily basis because, well, it’s fun.
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Teachers and the Push for Online Education | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag%
Educational use of Internet technology is on the rise in school districts across the country. But its effectiveness depends on more than just access, to be truly useful, teachers must understand how it works.
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How Google and Microsoft taught search to “understand” the Web | Ars Technica
Despite the massive amounts of computing power dedicated by search engine companies to crawling and indexing trillions of documents on the Internet, search engines still can't do what nearly any human can: tell the difference between a star, a 1970s TV show, and a Turkish alternative rock band. That’s because Web indexing has been based on the bare words found on webpages, not on what they mean.
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VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.
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